The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-25

Depot SAFE TO sue the georgia Zen
trail Railroad for Damages.
GEORGIA.
The new opera house at Athens win be
opened about Jan. 10.
There are fewer vacant stores in Athens
than was ever known before.
The Gainesville Volunteers have changed
their name to Piedmont Rifles.
Many Of the weekly papers of the State
will not be issued during holiday week.
Tallapoosa finally gets the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus railroad, and every
body is happy.
Louis Bray. living four miles east of
Athens, made this year fifty bales OF cotton
with two plows.
The earth is being cleared away for the
foundation of the new $4,000 Baptist
church of Brunswick.
There are about fifteen fats that run on
the Oconee river at Athens every day,
hauling wood and brick.
There is a man now grown in Athens who
once travelled from jackson, Miss, to hang
up his stocking and got l0c barlow knife
in it.
A stock company is at present being or
ganized to build and equip rope factory in
Tallapoosa. Mr.. Lynn, of Oxford, Ala,
is the head pusher in the enterprise.
Some of Grif1in's physicians have adj
dressed letter to President Cleveland in
behalf Of Rev. DR.. Thomas, whose applica-
ton for a chaplaincy in the army the Presi-
dent has had under consideration for sew
eral months.
At Brunswick Friday a building on the
boulevard owned by DIR. w. B. Burroughs
and occupied by G. A. Griffith as a family
grocery was burned. The building was in
Srired for $500, the stock for $3.50 and the
furniture for 500, all in the Western of
Toronto.
J. J. Fitzpatrick, who was charged with
robbing the safe of the Central railroad at
Midwife and was acquitted. will enter suit
Immediately against the company for heavy
damages TO his character, as it was at the
instance of the company that the prosecu
ton was brought.
On last Tuesday a negro man named
Tom Atkinson, who lives on the place of
Mr.. G.. NJ. Smith, some twelve miles from
Greensboro, met with frightful accident.
His left arm became caught i'll a gin and
the flesh was tor -ibl- lacerated from the
elbow to the tips of the fingers. Amputa-
ton was unavoidable.
]. L. Gilreath, the old gentleman from
Union county, who was so seriously hurt
by falling through the shaft at the elevator
at Messrs. Barnes, Evans & Co.'S store at
Gainesville, ten or twelve days ago, is still
IN very precarious condition. 1t is now
thought by his physician that one of his
legs will be paralyzed even if he should 9TH
erwise recover from his injuries.
Ida Bohannon, young mulatto girl now
living at Gainesville, claiming Rome as
her home, some four months ago gave birth
TO girl babe. Ida, from the birth of the
child, abhored it, from evidence given in
at the Ceroner's inquest, and more than
once evinced her displeasure at its exist
ence, and was urconcerned as to what be-
came Of it. few DAYS ago the child died
suddenly and the mother Is now under ar
rest charged with infanticide.
Joseph Arnold, who was captured in
Texas last summer, and has been in Jail at
brunswick ever since, was tried in Way
cross this week for the murder of Patrick
Ward at Wildwood in 1878. After hearing
the evidence and the law, the jury returned
IN about five minutes with verdict of not
guilty. Arnold claimed that he shot Ward
in self defense, as Ward was coming at him
with brick in his hand, when he shot.
AT Sandersville a few days ago Henry
Taylor, the year-old son OF W. B. Bar
wick, was severely hurt by falling under
wagon and having one of the wheels pass
over him. He climbed on the hind wheel
Of B. c. Harris wagon, loaded with two
bales OF cotton, and the driver. not noticing
1t, started on, when Taylor fell, the wheel
passing over his breast and right arm. In
falling his head probably struck the front
wheel, almost entirely severing one ear.
Senoia Sentinel: Conductor Croft tells
the following good joke: Several weeks
ago an old gentleman got aboard bis train
at one Of the stations, and when asked for
MS ticket handed the conductor a half tick
ct Upon being told that it was a half
ticket, only good for small boy, and that
he would have to pay full fare, the old gen
tleman replied that he was little boy when
ne got on the train, but they remained
long time at stations and run so slow that
he had grown old.
At II O'Clock Tuesday morning several
freight cars on the Georgia Midland road
jumped the track about a mile from Wood
bury. The train was bound northward and
was going at the rate of twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour Five cars left the
track and most of them were entirely
wrecked and their contents more or less
damaged. A negro brakeman named Hem
derson was thrown from the top of the train
against an embankment and was bruised up
considerably about the shoulder and hip.
Gainesville Eagle: Messrs. Camp Bros.
have at their livery stable, in this city,
fine shepherd dog, that is well trained and
wonderfully sagacious. If horse leaves
uAo stall, Ducp dS JIe QOg Is Called, VIII by
barking and swapping at his heels, soon
force him TO return to it, He will go along
the line of the stalls, and when a horse Is
standing TOO far back, Shep will snap at his
hind legs until he moves well up into his
place Though horses kick at him, he some
how never gets hit. He is boss of the sta
bic and the horses soon learn that they
must obey him.
Thirty young ladies of the Lucy Cobb
Institute, Athens, in charge of the princi-
pal, Miss Rutherford, and ex United States
Senator Pope Barrow arrived In Brunswick
yesterday. They have determined to spend
the holidays in the LAND of Flowers st.
Augustine being their objective point. John
b. Wrenn will take them over the popular
Cumberland route. The Italian band has
been employed to enliven the occasion with
sweet strains along the trip. John z. du-
Bignon has invited the party TO land at
Jekyl and inspect the club house and sur
noundings, and accordingly the "City of
brunswick" will stop on her way down
Fernandina, jacksonville, Palatka st. Au-
gustine and other points will be visited.
Camilla Clarion: Judge P. w. Twitty,
OF our County Court, not only wears seal
skin cap, but he has another smart dog. He
is noted for always having big heart and
smart dogs. Old Dash Is dead and gone.
but Dash is not forgotten. The many &C
complishinents OF the lamented julie were
an honor to the science of dogology. And
now the fine young black-nosed Bob is on
the boards. The other DAY the Judge sent